What Life Factors Contribute to HIV Transmission?

[Taan123]

i love this lady doctor!!

[JohnnyRock2000]

I would like to know...can a mosquito bite someone with HIV...get disturbed and land on another and spread the virus. Is there a chance? Also is the virus in saliva or tears or sweat or mucus from the nose or urine?

[thewhile]

i dont think anyone wants to wait 6 months after ever single partner they've ever had, that's ridiculous and u sorta make it sounds like u should wait 6 months after you had your last sexual intercourse AND get your new partner tested, then wait 6 months still...seems stupid to me. Well not stupid if u have the self control and patience then go for it but i wouldn't.

[AIDSvideos]

The most important thing is: if you choose to be sexually active, use a condom. If you use a condom correctly every time for every act, even if your partner is in fact HIV+, your risk of HIV transmission per act will be greatly reduced.

[mendel7543]

I think what she may have been speaking about (in reagrds to internet porn) is the use of the internet to find sex partners. People who use the internet to find sex partners are more likely to engage in high risk activities, and experience the various consequences.

[hydroBigBud]

if i have been tested and girl friend has. is it ok to have unprotected sex?

[AIDSvideos]

If you have unprotected sex, you're betting your life on your partner's test result, honesty, and continued monogamy with you. You need to both have tested HIV- at least six months after your last possible exposure to HIV (via sex with another partner, needle sharing, etc.), both have been mutually faithful that long, and continue being mutually faithful & not sharing needles to even consider this.

[hydroBigBud]

thanks for the advice, she is the first i have had sex with, and never of us are drug users. i will use a comdom! do get little pressure to try with out tho, and am sure she is honest.(but thats a huge risk). but what about oral sex? thanks

[AIDSvideos]

HIV can be transmitted via oral sex. So can other STDs such as herpes and gonorrhea.

[gished100]

My god, do you really have that little faith in human beings and are you honestly that paranoid about HIV?

[AIDSvideos]

Realize you could also contract other asymptomatic STDs from your partner like herpes, HPV, chlamydia, etc. Condoms don't guarantee those won't be transmitted but they reduce the risk (by varying amounts for each disease). All things considered, it's far, far safer to continue using condoms with your girlfriend than to have unprotected sex.

[yaboyisgifted]

internet porn can give u hiv?

[AIDSvideos]

No. HIV is a virus. You can't contract it by watching porn on a computer monitor. However, speculatively, it's possible that watching Internet porn might influence you to engage in higher-risk sexual behaviors than you might otherwise, thereby increasing your risk of contracting HIV.

[thuggie1]

don't be silly

[AIDSvideos]

I'm not. There is plenty of evidence from psychological studies that visualizing behaviors can increase your likelihood of doing them (whether good ones or bad ones, safe ones or dangerous ones). So don't dismiss the possibility that watching porn could influence you to behave in riskier ways than you would otherwise.

[thuggie1]

ye but it is still the conchus dishion of the person to engage in these activerties it not the porn it is the non education which puts the person at risk but this is just my opion it is like when people say they killed somone because of a film it was not the film it was them but as i said this is my opion